This week was once again super awesome. We're just meeting with so many people it's awesome, we are really getting into the area and finally I have a progressing investigator again!!!! His name is A. and he is awesome, we have met with him every day and it's been cool over only a week to see how he has changed each lesson. He is a super relaxed guy which is really good for this branch because sometimes people get a bit high maintenance. We also have another investigator who has investigated the church before and the night before her baptism decided to back out because of some problems but she says she is ready to get baptized now! She is way cool and keeps in contact with all her old missionaries.
So in this branch there is a pretty big problem with members not getting along and gossip and finger pointing. Nearly every time that I have visited a member they have talked bad about another member. It's so sad a lot of them blame it on the branch president and it's like ya I totally recognize the guy isn't perfect but first of all they are hanging on to old grudges and he has improved a lot, second off your eternal salvation doesn't depend on who is leading the church it depends on if you GO! I just tell them just come sit in the back take the sacrament and leave at the very least. But to be honest the real reason they aren't coming is because they don't have a testimony.
This week during weekly planning I realized that after this next week I will only have two weeks left and it was kinda like a holy cow moment I'm actually leaving this country at some point. It just seems like such a foreign concept to me, like Albania is my home now. This is my life! Its hard to believe this is coming to an end. Really wanting to end my mission in a full sprint though. I don't want to miss a single second of this madness!
We went to this members house this week and they are probably the poorest people I have visited my whole mission. Like their entire house could easily fit in my old room. And the living conditions are REALLY not good. They really have it rough and living kinda far outside of Lushnje but they are at church EVERY week without fail. It's so awesome to see an example like them. There are people that live right next to the church that don't come because "they have been offended" whereas this family has every reason not to come and get judged all the time because of their situation but are there every week as a family it's so awesome.
Church was pretty exciting this week too. There is a member who knows a lot of the scriptures and stuff but kinda gets sidetracked and during priesthood who was pretty off topic and then the elders quorum president made a passive aggressive comment that we should stay on topic with our comments and THEN the teacher got involved and was like you two just argue every sunday you need to quit taking things personally and figure things out! So perfect recipe for disaster. The guy who gets sidetracked after lots of arguing and practically yelling stormed out of the room yelling "GOD BLESS YOU" on his way out. Now as far as I remember that kinda stuff doesn't happen in America, man it must just be so boring back there!
Anyway the work is going forward in Lushnje. We are now setting baptismal dates for after I leave which is kinda sad but what do you do! Love you all! Hope you're doing well!
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